Blackmailed For Love

It was not long before I heard the leaves crunched behind me as I sat there on on the forest floor, on my knees, crying my heart out- telling me that someone was behind me.

Thinking that it was Kristoff, I didn't turn around and neither removed my hands from my face which was soaked with my tears and probably all red.

"Go away, Kristoff.

Leave me alone."

"It would be hard for him to do so, when he is not here."

His deep voice slid over me like a warm blanket as I sat there on my knees, frozen.

My heart started beating furiously and I wanted to run away, to hide from him or to stand up and slap his stupidly beautiful face.

"Go away."

I hissed out.

1 His footsteps drew closer and then his cinnamon scent engulfed as I felt him come close.

A moment later, rough fingers curled around my wrists and he pulled my hands down.

I didn't want to open my eyes but when I felt his fingers wiping my cheeks off the tears, my eyelids fluttered open and I saw him crouching low in front of me looking so handsome with his dark grey eyes that resembled a rainy sky locked on me.

"Why are you here?"

I asked him, my voice threadbare with tears.

"I saw you crying."

"And? Why would it matter to you?"

I demanded pushing his hands away.

I stumbled to my feet and said, "I am just a little girl, right?"

I turned around from him then, unable to look at him any longer as all I could think about was how I longed to have him see me as something more than just a little girl, to have his arms around me and tell me that I mattered.

But for the second time his strong fingers wrapped around my arm as he stopped me from taking another step away from him.

"Release me."

I said through clenched teeth trying hard to control my emotions, to not yell at him for not loving me back.

"Elsa—"

"Why don't you go back to that woman you were with? She is your type, right?"

I felt my heart squeezing painfully as I said the words, "Go back to her.

Don't worry about me, I understand that I'm just a little girl, a daughter of a servant in your home, not someone you'd ever be with."

1 He let out a curse and then he was in front of me, his hands cupping my face.

"You think it's your fucking financial status that's stopping me?"

"What else could it be? I am the poor girl from the wrong side of the town.

You would rather help me, avenge me, than date me!"

I pushed at his chest, the stupid tears once again coming down in rivulets.

"I am not good enough for you.

Not rich enough.

Not beautiful enough.

not enough! Just a little girl that you think

deep growl Kristian slammed his fist into the

cried out when hit it not just once but twice before

already bruised knuckles that hadn't healed completely, once

"What did you do!"

snatched his hand up and looked down at the mess he had made of

face and with his thumb he tilted my chin up so he

He said, "Little girl,"

I stiffened.

his thumb on my bottom lip and said, "You think that you are not enough…

Or the opposite.

have talked to

sunshine in my dark and miserable

you, little girl… You are everything

fûcking joke the man upstairs is

and I am so fûcking hungry every time

"Kristian…"

"Shh…"

his fingers swiping under my eyes as he

for me to answer as he

We can't, little girl.

to, I can't do this

would ruin

talk about you and

would have to kill every single one of them because

shook on my cheek as he said, "And besides all that, you don't deserve a man

bring his darkness

and I don't

it matter to you

and holding his

don't care

to be

as I

care about your darkness and your demons, all I

you light, I want to sit with you and share

to be with you so

I want you."

are so innocent, my little

I don't want to be the

what

I yelled.

his neck and pulled him close, our lips just mere inches away from

I said, "Kristian, please…"

know what to say to

"I love you…"

line as he gritted out, "You don't know what you

you enough that I'm throwing caution to the wind, that I don't care

his eyes as if it pained

"You are forbidden fûcking

are you

him, feeling my heart aching as I said, "If that's

stay away from me then I

your

able to go to your

worry about coming across me as now I will

turned away